2024-09-06 05:20:34
Thursday, September 05, 2024 – 20:16 WIB
Director of Strategic Planning & IT BPJS Ketenagakerjaan Zainudin with Assistant II for Economic and Development Affairs of the Bangka Belitung Provincial Government Hartono. Photo: BPJS Ketenagakerjaan Documentation
jpnn.comBANGKA BELITUNG – BPJS Employment and the Bangka Belitung Provincial Government (Pemprov Babel) are working together to realize social security protection for formal and informal workers.
In an audience with the Babel Provincial Government, BPJS Ketenagakerjaan’s Director of Strategic Planning & IT, Zainudin, said that BPJS Ketenagakerjaan is a government program for public welfare and preventing poverty.
He emphasized that social security for workers is an important factor in supporting national resilience, protecting the welfare of participants, preventing new poverty, and the benefits of scholarships for the continuation of education.
“This good program is now a national program and we are launching it with the Ministry of Home Affairs, namely Universal Coverage Jamsostek. Several provinces are already good, and today we are visiting Bangka Belitung, because we see a potential area to increase coverage-” said Zainudin in his official statement, Thursday (5/9).
Zainudin said that currently BPJS Employment membership in Bangka Belitung has only reached 33 percent.
However, he is optimistic that by the end of the year, participation can increase to 55 percent with support from the local government.
Zainudin said that BPJS Ketenagakerjaan together with the Bangka Belitung Provincial Government will continue to strive to increase participation in the future, one of which is by encouraging the village ecosystem in this area.
Zainudin said the total social security benefits for workers in Bangka Belitung Province from 2023 to 2024 amounting to IDR 332.7 billion had been distributed to workers and their families.
BPJS Employment membership in Bangka Belitung has only reached 33 percent, and is optimistic that it will increase by the end of this year.
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